How we work

We only work with organisations who have proven solutions to social issues because we know a good idea is only the first step – strategy and implementation are the real challenges.

We help turn a big picture vision into practical reality by listening carefully, getting the facts straight and asking thought-provoking questions. We help our clients to understand the options for social replication and scale to develop a plan that works for your specific context.

Strategic and practical.

We challenge clients to set ambitious social targets, and then help them develop pragmatic strategies to achieve them.

Commercial and social. Our team brings both commercial and social expertise from working with some of the world’s most impactful purpose organisations and our own research. We are a not-for-profit social enterprise ourselves, investing any surplus back into our social mission, so we ‘get’ the sector.

Rigorous process. Scaling is challenging, but not impossible. It requires careful design of a system that works, monitoring, and improvement, backed by solid systems and process which we help design and implement.

Connected. We help facilitate the links needed for clients to implement their strategies, from funding to service providers.

Successful. We only count our work as a success if our clients create genuine and lasting social impact.

A route to scale

A five step process to achieving scale.

There are a number of routes to scaling social impact; our current focus is on replication. Replication refers broadly to taking your organisation, program or set of core principles to new locations. Our methodology is based on five stages of achieving scale through social replication. It is publicly available via our Social Replication Toolkit.